Two Southern Illinois University students from the Chicago suburbs died Monday morning in a truck crash downstate, Carbondale police said.

DUPO, Ill. – A pedestrian was killed in a crash Wednesday morning near Dupo, Illinois, according to Illinois State Police. The crash happened just after 10 a.m. Wednesday in the southbound lanes of Interstate 255. It happened around milepost 6 in Monroe County.

Francis Martinez, 18, of Des Plaines, and Wolfgang Gustaveson, 19, of Park Ridge, were killed when their truck collided with another truck, Carbondale police said.

Two Southern Illinois University students died Monday morning in a traffic collision less than two miles from the Carbondale campus.

Several communities have been left reeling after two students from Chicago’s suburbs were killed in a head-on crash near Southern Illinois University’s Carbondale campus Monday morning.